If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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If you’re not failing 90% of the time, then you’re probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.
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And to the extent that we do not violate any known laws of the universe, we can probably make it work the way that we want to.
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As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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Because the web has produced so much uninformed criticism. It’s kind of a Gresham’s Law-bad money drives the good money out of circulation.
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But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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In success there’s a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.
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It’s easier to invent the future than to predict it.
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So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.
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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view.
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